Positioning Identities - Lesbians' and Gays' Experiences With Mental Health Care

Zusatztext "[Platzer] constantly pushes substantive and methodological boundaries..[She] obviated the usual sampling bias commonly found in studies of such 'hidden' populations [and] straddled epistemological divides! using interpretive phenomenology! positioning theory and some deconstructive techniques." -Judith Lathlean! Southampton University Informationen zum Autor Hazel K Platzer Klappentext Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism. Zusammenfassung Provides results of a landmark qualitative study of how lesbians and gays negotiate their sexual identities in mental health care contexts and manage institutional homophobia and heterosexism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements, Preface, 1 Disordered Identities, 2 The Persistence of the Pathologization of Lesbian and Gay Sexual Identities, 3 On Not Grasping the Nettle, 4 The Research That Cannot Speak Its Name, 5 Identity Parade: Experiences in the Line-Up for Mental Health Care, 6 Mistaken Identities through a Phenomenological Lens, 7 A Discursive Analysis of Resistance to Mistaken Identities, 8 Disintegrating the Dualisms and Reintegrating Identities, 9 Negotiating Sexual Identities, References, Index

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• Authors: Hazel K Platzer, Hazel K. Platzer
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2006
• EAN: 9781598742923
• ISBN: 978-1-59874-292-3
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series; International Institute for Qu
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works